Update Sept 2018: The Begging Bowl have sent photos of their disabled toilet and say wheelchair users have had no problems with it but they’ve “had a few worries about advertising our toilet as a disabled facility and wondered if you could help me decide if it is. We have handle bars on either side…
On a recent trip to France, I stayed near the picturesque town of Nanteuil-en-Vallée in the Charente Department. If any BBS readers are passing through the Charente, or staying in the nearby centres of Cognac, La Rochelle or Angoulême, then Nanteuil-en-Vallée is a brilliant day trip destination. Part of the area’s appeal is that it’s off the beaten…
You would be hard placed to find a better, more welcoming place to stay in north Cornwall. The Woodlands Country House Hotel is perfectly located between Padstow and St Merryn, offering easy access to any of the “7 bays for 7 days” that make this part of Cornwall so brilliantly distinctive. This oasis of calm…
Wallpaper magazine is one of our sources for new cool places to go so we were eager to know more about the Paradiso Ibiza Art Hotel they recommended. In particular we wanted to know how they accommodated people with disabilities. We gave a previous review of Ibiza having visited back in 2013 and it still…
Update 2018: The lift to the South Wing is not working according to their website and Tom’s Kitchen has been replaced by Bryn Williams a previous BBS Award winner both in 2016 and 2017. This is good news and we have reviewed them separately and access is not affected by the non working lift as…
A holiday in Sardinia is planned for August this year for BBS Founder, Fiona & her wheelchair. As part of Italy she assumed that accessibility would be variable, as evidenced on a previous trip to Milan. In Milan it was apparent that even the best hotels had a very different view on accessibility compared to the UK…
We recently visited two iconic London venues and for once a Grade II listed building has been refurbished with disabled people in mind. That is Kettner’s, a well known landmark in Soho, founded in 1867 by Auguste Kettner, chef to Napoleon III and it was one of the first French restaurants in London. The building is…
Further to a previous article I’ve now taken TGA WHILL, the new style electric wheelchair, for a serious test – a trip to Kew Gardens. This may seem sedate but believe me, travelling over the pavements of Kew Bridge were definitely a test! It started with trying to reverse out of the lift at BBS Towers…
The Harcourt pub/restaurant came to our notice as it gets consistently good reviews for it’s food (The Telegraph, Times, Timeout & GQ). But what about their access and disabled facilities? Located in London’s resurrected Marylebone (see our previous review), it’s in an old pub on different levels. Hence, only the ground floor is accessible and the toilets…